The Hungarian Rakoczi Foundation received a prestigious international award in 2008. The first ever Charlemagne Youth Prize accorded by the European Parliament was designed for already exisiting initiatives from the Member States of the European Union, that expressed the idea of European identity and integration, and were active attaining these.
In the two-staged selection procedure, the Students Without Boundaries Program won both the national jury’s and the European jury’s unanimous support. The project was adjudged to be of the greatest value from 400 organizations. In their appreciation, the jury emphasized that the Program achieves the conception of the free Europe, exempt from discrimination, where every citizen is equal, irrespective of the member state he lives in. They considered it to have a special added value int he program that young people from Ukraine and Serbia also had the possibility to take part in the project, thus binding stronger these countries to the European Union.

Hungarian Rakoczi Foundation was awarded by the ever first Charlemagne Youth Prize of the European Parliament. The prize recognizes the outstanding work the Foundation does in the field of youth cooperation.
Hans Gert Pottering, president of the European Parliament greeted the volunteers of the program and participants of the 15th Students Without Boundaries Program via a video message.

The Rakoczi Association was founded in 1953 to preserve the Hungarian culture in Canada and to serve the Hungarian community. The founder of the Association was Miklos Korponay, who intended that this non-profit organization would cater to the cultural needs of the Hungarians of Canada, to provide a friendly balance and cooperation between the existing associations. The cooperation contract, which is still valid, has been signed worldwide but mostly in the United States of America and Canada by 168 different Hungarian associations, including the historical churches.